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to insure his being a very useful member of my party 

 in the event of our falling in with Esquimaux, with 

 whose language he was perfectly familiar. Besides, 

 he was an excellent hunter and dog-driver; and, by 

 joining me, I secured his team of dogs, the finest in 

 all North Greenland. But unfortunately this involved 

 another halt, for they were sixty miles up the coast, 

 at Tessuissak, a small hunting station of which he was 

 Trader at the time of obtaining his leave of absence 

 to go home for the year. I also shipped two Danish 

 sailors, thus increasing my party to twenty souls. As 

 the new recruits will figure frequently in these pages, 

 I- give their names : — 



Peter Jensen, Interpreter and dog-manager. 



Carl Emil Olswig, Sailor. 



Carl Christian Petersen, Sailor and Carpenter. 



Peter (converted Esquimau), Hunter and dog-driver. 

 Marcus, " '' 



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Jacob, " " « *' 



I owe much to the kindly disposition of the inhab- 

 itants of Upernavik. Their simple though cordial 

 hospitality was a refreshing incident of our cruise ; 

 and the constant desire to supply my wants, and the 

 pains which they took to furnish what I so much 

 needed, is gratefully remembered. If those in author- 

 ity had allowed me to shift for myself I should have 

 been badly off indeed. I mention it to their credit 

 that they refused compensation of every kind ; and it 

 was not without great effort that I could prevail upon 

 any of them to accept so much as a barrel of flour or 

 a box of canned food. " You will want them more 

 than we," was the uniform answer. The Chief Trader 

 actually sent aboard a present I had made him in re- 

 turn for the line team of dogs which I owed to his 

 generosit}^ 



